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NASA Insiders Propose Stepping Stone Path To Deep Space

NASA's Constellation Program – including the deployment of the Orion crew vehicle replacing the space shuttle – will first be assigned to International Space Station flights, then propel humans and cargo to the Moon. Expeditionary missions to Mars and beyond will follow. Click Here To Know More

Earth's Worst Extinction A Prolonged Event

The rise of mollusks across the globe was a harbinger of doom roughly 250 million years ago, ushering in the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history, research now reveals. Click Here To Know More

Earth's Worst Extinction A Prolonged Event

The rise of mollusks across the globe was a harbinger of doom roughly 250 million years ago, ushering in the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history, research now reveals. Click Here To Know More

Verizon Wireless To Acquire Rural Cellular For $2.7 billion

Verizon Wireless has agreed to acquire Rural Cellular, a mobile telephone service provider focused on rural areas in the U.S., the companies announced Monday. Click Here To Know More

Web's Wonders Still Elude Many Users

A study that indicates that lack of awareness and poor usability are the key barriers to a user's adoption of Internet services from ISPs may provide some relevance to IT managers. Click Here To Know More

Web Site Archives The Dead Of MySpace

Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind. Click Here To Know More

BBC Launches Free Internet TV Service

Billed as the biggest change in the way viewers watch television in 40 years, the BBC launched an online service on Friday that allows people to download many programs from the last week. Click Here To Know More

YouTube Preps Video Fingerprinting

NEW YORK - Google Inc.'s YouTube hopes recognition technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyrighted videos on the popular Web site, a lawyer Friday told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits. Click Here To Know More

Windows Vista Hits The 60 Million Mark

At Microsoft's annual meeting with analysts, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced that the software giant had sold 60 million copies of Windows Vista since the product's launch in late January. Click Here To Know More

Google Earth Enterprise Data Now In Browsers

Google released an upgrade to its Google Earth Enterprise mapping system on Thursday that for the first time will let users display two-dimensional geospatial data from the product on a Web browser. Click Here To Know More

Microsoft Buying Online Ad Exchange

Microsoft announced Thursday it is adding another weapon to its arsenal in the battle for online advertising dollars with the purchase of Internet ad exchange AdECN Inc. Click Here To Know More

Commuter Writes Book Using Mobile Phone

An Italian writer decided to put his mobile phone to good use during his daily commute to and from work -- by writing a book. Click Here To Know More

Worst Of Atlantic Hurricane Season Still To Come

Nearly eight weeks have passed since the last tropical storm in the Atlantic-Caribbean region faded away, but banish any notion the 2007 hurricane season has been unusually slow and beware the coming months, experts say. Click Here To Know More

Microsoft To Provide Advertising For Digg

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it reached an agreement to be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com, a Web site that lets readers recommend articles to others. Click Here To Know More

Black Holes Devour Matter Like Piranhas

Like gluttonous piranhas, supermassive black holes in young galaxy clusters gorge on bountiful gas until little fuel is left, and then they fade away, a new study suggests. C lick Here To Know More

Voracious Jumbo Squid Invade California

Jumbo squid that can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh more than 110 pounds is invading central California waters and preying on local anchovy, hake and other commercial fish populations. Click Here To Know More

Microsoft, EA Sign Sports Game Ad Deal

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - ERTS - news), including its best-selling "Madden" football franchise. Click Here To Know More

Scientists Say Snowy River Flowing Again

A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a foot-and-a-half of water. Click Here To Know More

Nokia To Buy Photo-Sharing Site Twango

Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday it would buy U.S.-based photo-sharing social networking site Twango (http://www.twango.com/), but did not disclose the price. Click Here To Know More

Astronauts Venture Outside Space Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two astronauts ventured outside the international space station Monday to rid the orbiting complex of some large pieces of junk. Click Here To Know More

Launch Of Japan Moon Probe Postponed

Japan's space agency said the mid-August launch of its lunar orbiter will be postponed due to a technical glitch, delivering another setback to the much-delayed probe. Click Here To Know More

Fossils Show Dinosaurs Rose Gradually: Study

Fossils found in the United States show dinosaurs lived along side their ancestors for tens of millions of years, disproving long-held theories assuming they quickly replaced their predecessors, according to a new study. Click Here To Know More

Google To Bid On Wireless Airwaves

Google Inc. on Friday said it will bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless airwaves being auctioned off by the federal government — if certain conditions are met. Click Here To Know More

Restored Saturn V Rocket Unveiled

Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket's immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon. Click Here To Know More

Dinosaurs, Ancestors Coexisted

Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes. Dinosaurs arose in the Late Triassic, between 235 million and 200 million years ago, and came to dominate the planet in the Jurassic, 200 million to 120 million years ago. Click Here To Know More

Archaeologists Dig Up Roman Bath Complex

Archaeologists said Thursday they have partly dug up a second-century bath complex believed to be part of the vast, luxurious residence of a wealthy Roman. Click Here To Know More

Nokia Starts Global Positioning Service

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) launched a service on Thursday which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services. Click Here To Know More

Space Tourism Firm Raises Prices For Orbital Trips

A U.S. space tourism firm has booked two multimillion-dollar seats to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard future Russian spacecraft, but ticket prices are going up. Click Here To Know More

Gold-Plated Phone Planned For Olympics

Samsung Electronics Co. will make a special 18-carat gold-plated mobile phone in China to mark next year's Olympics in Beijing. Click Here To Know More

Scientists Find Lake Remnants In Sudan

Scientists have discovered the underground remnants of an ancient lake in Sudan's arid Darfur region, offering hope of tapping a precious resource and easing water scarcity, which experts say is the root of much of the unrest in the region. Click Here To Know More

Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again

Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies. Click Here To Know More

Google Trims Lifespan Of User-Tracking 'Cookies'

Google announced Monday that it is shortening the lives of software "cookies" used to track users' online preferences. Click Here To Know More

Tests Start On World's Largest Infra-Red Telescope In Spain

Tests on the world's largest infra-red telescope began Friday ahead of its scheduled opening in 2008, the Canaries Astrophysics Institute (IAC) announced. Click Here To Know More

Robot Visits Patients When Doctor Can't

Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside? Click Here To Know More

August Meteor Shower Will Be 'A Great Show'

The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a great show this year, peaking in mid-August with a display of dozens of shooting stars each hour. Click Here To Know More

August Meteor Shower Will Be 'A Great Show'

The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a great show this year, peaking in mid-August with a display of dozens of shooting stars each hour.

Telescope Gives Deepest View Of Space

Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island. The astronomy team from the California Institute of Technology, which was to present its findings in London on Wednesday, said they used the Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea volcano to see farther into space than ever before. Click Here To Know More

Lenovo Unveils Its Highest Performing Notebook: A Linux Workstation

The ThinkPad T61p has a 15.4-inch wide screen, runs 10% cooler than previous models, and is three decibels quieter. Click Here To Know More

Google Inc. To Unite Mapping Mashups

Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites. Click Here To Know More

Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

Astronomers using a giant telescope say they have found glimpses of the most distant -- and oldest -- galaxies ever seen, a finding that will help provide clues to the origins of the universe. Click Here To Know More

Space Shuttle Endeavor Primed For August Launch

NASA's shuttle Endeavour is headed for the launch pad as the space agency gears up for its second construction flight of the year to the International Space Station (ISS). Click Here To Know More

NASA Spacecraft Set To Study Mars' Icy North Pole

Preparations are on track for the launch of a new NASA Mars lander early next month to search for subsurface water and potential life in the red planet's arctic northern region. Click Here To Know More

Google Buys Postini For $625 Million

Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products. Click Here To Know More

Baby Dino Skeleton Sheds Light On Growth

A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults. Click Here To Know More

NASA Delays Dawn Asteroid Probe Launch Until September

The US space agency has postponed until September the launch of space probe Dawn on its eight-year mission to unlock the mysteries of the origins of our solar system. Click Here To Know More

7 New Wonders Of The World Chosen

The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum and India's Taj Mahal were among seven architectural marvels named the new wonders of the world Saturday. Click Here To Know More

Key to Giant Space Sponge Revealed

One of the strangest moons in our solar system is Hyperion, a Saturnian satellite so pockmarked by deep craters that it looks like a giant, rotating bath sponge adrift in space. Click Here To Know More

Dust Storm Affecting Mars Rovers

A powerful dust storm on Mars has worsened and is affecting the twin rovers' operations on the Red Planet, mission scientists say. Click Here To Know More

Chinese Eat Dinosaur Bones As Medicine

Villagers in central China spent decades digging up bones they believed belonged to flying dragons and using them in traditional medicines. Turns out the bones belonged to dinosaurs, and now scientists are doing the digging. Click Here To Know More

Global Warming Blamed For Vanishing Lake

Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind. Click Here To Know More

NASA Astronaut Readapts To Life On Earth

Astronaut Sunita Williams is readapting to life on Earth after a record-setting mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that raised the bar for female spaceflyers Click Here To Know More

NASA Recycles Old Spacecraft For New Missions

Two NASA probes well past their prime have a fresh lease on life and new missions ahead... Click Here To Know More

Takeoffs A Problem For Giant Bird

Weighing in at 150 pounds or more, the all-time biggest bird couldn't just hop into the air and fly away. Click Here To Know More

Youtube, SKorea's LG Agree To Develop Mobile Phone

South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service. Click Here To Know More

Gooogle Acquires Web-calling Service GrandCentral

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Google Inc. has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users manage their existing phones and voice mailboxes over the Web as if they were a single account. Click Here To Know More

IBM Launches Nuclear Expertise Centre In France

IBM will open in France its first nuclear consultancy centre in July, at a time when utilities are looking to build new reactors and stretch the old ones' lifetime. Click Here To Know More

Latest From Microsoft

Microsoft surface represents a fundamental change in the way we interact with digital content. With surface we can actually grab data with our hands and move information between objects with natural gestures and touch. Surface features a 30-inch tabletop display whose unique abilities allow for several people to work independently or simultaneously.All without using a mouse or a keyboard. Click Here To Know More

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